Separator for steam-generators



(No Model.)

M. W. HANLEY.

SEPARATOR POR STEAM GBNBRATORS. No'. 355,166. Patented Dec. 28, 1886.

Nv PETERS, Phnlo-Llthngnyhen Washngall. D. C.

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MICHAEL XV. HANLEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SEPARATOR FOR STEAM-GENERATORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,166, dated December28, 1886.

Application led April 2.5, 1884. Serial No. 129,296. (No model.)

l To all whom/.it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, MICHAEL W. HANLEY,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of'Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Separators for Steam-Generators, which are fully setforth in the following speciiication, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a longitudinalvertical section of a steam-generator embodying my improvements; andFig. 2, a cross section of the same, taken on the linex x in Fig. l.

My invention relates to separators for steam generators, its objectbeing to provide means for producing anhydrous steam, or, in otherwords, to prevent the water which may be mingled with the steam frompassing through the boiler into the steam-pipe, and to this end myinvention consists in certain novel features, which I will now proceedto describe, and will then particularly point out in the claims.

In the drawings I have shown my separator applied to a steamV generator,in which A represents the furnace provided with a trechamber, B, at oneend, having' the usual gratebars, b,and tire-wall b anda cap, b2,preferably constructed of, or at least lined with light-coloredfire-brick. C represents the boiler set upon the furnace in the usualmanner, this latter being provided with barrier-walls D underneath thesame, forming al series of combustion-chambers. The boiler-ilues E,preferably concavo-conveX, as shown, lead from the rear end of thefurnace to the draft-ilue F, which latter communicates with the chimneyG. The draft-ilue^is provided with a damper, H, connected by means of arod, h2, to a crankarm, i, on a rock-shaft, I, the other end of therocl-shaft being provided with a similar cranlcarm, z", to which the rodJ for operating the damper or draft-regulator is connected.

The parts just described constitute my preferred form ofsteam-generator, although, of course, any approved apparatus for thepurpose may be substituted therefor, and I do not ,limit myself to thisparticular construction.

My improved separator is constructed as follows:

supply-pipe, N, in a dry condition.

L represents a steam-dome mounted upon the boiler, on the top thereof,and c a steampipe extending upward through the bottom of said dome intothe same and terminating within it a short distance below the topthereof.

being somewhat larger than the steam-pipe, kthe upper end of which itincloses and sur rounds. without closing the same, as clearly shown inthe several figures of the drawings.- 'In operation it will be seen thatthe steam passing up through the steam-pipe cis thrown down again by thecap or casing between it and the pipe, so that the steam is forced downonto the boiler surface or bottom of the dome, from whence it arises tothe upper part of the dome and is taken oft' for use by means of a Theresult of this operation upon the steam is to deprive it of any sprayor'water which 'it may have carried from the boiler, the water'beingarrested at the bottom of the steam-dome, and the steam being deliveredin a nearly dry or anhydrous condition. v

rIhe cap M is supported within the steamdome by means ot' lugs orflanges m, or any other suitable supporting-arms. A faucet, Z, isapplied to the lower edge of the steam-dome, as shown in Fig. 2 ofthevdrawngs, so that the water and condensed steam accumulating in thedome may be drawn oft' whenever desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let-l ters Patent, is-

l. In a separator for steanir-generators, the combination, with asteam-dome and a steampipe passing upward through the bottom of saiddome, of a cap or casing closed at the top and open at the bottom andcovering the open upper end of the steam-pipe, substantially asspecified.

2. In a separator for stoma-generators, the

combination, with a steam-dome closed at the bottom and a steam-pipepassing upwardly through said closed bottom and terminating within thedome, of a cap or casing having a closed upper end and open lower end,the said the vdome above the end of the pipe c, and exdome, pipe, andoasingbeing arranged subtending downward around the same toward Iostantialy as shown and described, and for the the bottom of the dome,substantially as and purposes specified. d for the purposes specified.

3. The combination, with the boiler G and MICHAEL W. HANLEY.

steam-dome L, closed at the bottom, of the Witnesses: pipe c, extendingfrom the boiler upward into W. O. CORLIEs. thesteam-dome, and the capM,arran'ged Within A. M. BEST.

